Peter Brown (peter.brown@oasis-open.org) is chair of the OASIS Board and and also serves on its Finance and Auditing, Staffing and Compensation, and Governance Committees; his term extends to July 2011. Mr. Brown is Founder and Managing Director of Pensive S.A., a software solutions company for information-driven enterprise, based in Brussels, Belgium. He is currently also Chair of the "eGovernment Focus group" set up by the European standards agency, CEN, and is an active member of OASIS and co-editor of the SOA-RM OASIS Standard.
Most of Mr. Brown's career to date has been working in the European public service - five years for the Council of Europe until 1989 and then for the European Parliament, where his work over 16 years has covered all aspects of the organization's work, from running the leader's office of the largest political group, acting as a political adviser, developing (pre-Web) online information networks, through to developing organization-wide information architecture and involving the Parliament in standards and consortium work. His most recent assignment before founding Pensive, was to join the Austrian Government's EU eGovernment Strategy unit as a senior adviser. Mr. Brown's areas of professional interest cover semantic technologies, identity management, SOA and information management.
Mike DeNicola (mike.denicola@oasis-open.org) chairs the Governance Committee of the OASIS Board and is a member of the OASIS Finance and Audit Committee; his term extends to July 2011. Mr. DeNicola is Director of Industry Relations at Fujitsu Computer Systems in Sunnyvale, California, working directly for the Strategy and Technology Division of Fujitsu Limited in Japan. He began his career with IBM, working both in its US and World Trade Organizations. He has held a wide range of technical, management, and executive positions, including Vice President of Software Development and a Member of the Board of Directors at both UniSoft Corporation and Fujitsu Software Corporation.
Immediately prior to his present position, Mr. DeNicola was Vice President of Engineering for HAL Computer Systems, a wholly owned Fujitsu subsidiary. In addition to his work with OASIS, he is Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Web Services-Interoperability (WS-I) organization. He is the Alternate Board Member for Fujitsu at the Object Management Group (OMG). He also represents Fujitsu on the Java Community Process (JCP) SE/EE Executive Committee. Mr. DeNicola holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters equivalent from Cornell University.
Bob Freund (bob.freund@oasis-open.org) is vice chair of the OASIS Board and chair of its IPR Committee; he also serves on its Staffing and Compensation, Process, and Governance Committees; his term extends to July 2010. Mr. Freund represents Hitachi in several Internet-related activities. He has more than 38 years of computer industry experience in hardware, software and systems architecture, design, and development. His electronic engineering accomplishments include the invention of signature transducers used for a US Air Force security system, the design of disk controllers, electronic toys, and IBM-compatible mainframe processor micro-code and channel subsystems. Mr. Freund's recent standards involvement includes participation in the OASIS SCA-Assembly, SCA-Policy, WS-RM, WS-RX, and the WS-TX Technical Committees. He chairs the WS-I Reliable Secure Profile Working Group and has previously chaired the W3C WS-Addressing Working Group.
Robert Glushko, Ph.D. (bob.glushko@oasis-open.org) serves on the IPR and Governance Committees of the OASIS Board; his term extends to July 2010. As an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the School of Information Management and Systems, he is the Director of the Center for Document Engineering and teaches courses on XML, business process modeling, information architecture, content management, model-based application development, and services science.
Dr. Glushko co-founded Passage Systems in 1992 and Veo Systems in 1997. After Veo's acquisition in 1999 by Commerce One, he headed Commerce One's XML architecture and technical standards activities and was named an "Engineering Fellow" in 2000. Dr. Glushko is co-author of the book, Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services. He has an MS in Software Engineering from the Wang Institute and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of California, San Diego.
Frederick Hirsch (frederick.hirsch@oasis-open.org) serves as Secretary of the OASIS Board and also works on its Finance and Auditing, IPR, Process, and Governance Committees; his term extends to July 2010. Mr. Hirsch is a Senior Architect at Nokia responsible for service oriented architecture standardization strategy. He has extensive distributed systems and security experience, having worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, BBN, OSF, and CertCo, as well as smaller companies.
Mr. Hirsch has been active in the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), Liberty Alliance (ID-WSF 2.0 editor) and WS-I Basic Security Profile group. In the W3C he is currently the Chair of the XML Security Working Group and has previously chaired the XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group. He has also contributed at the W3C as editor in the WS- Policy and XKMS Working Groups and in OASIS as an editor in the OASIS Security Services (SAML), WSS, and DSS Technical Committees. Mr. Hirsch is co-author of the book "Mobile Web Services: Architecture and Implementation". He is the primary OASIS voting contact for Nokia.
Jim Hughes (jim.hughes@oasis-open.org) serves as Treasurer of the OASIS Board and also works on its Finance and Auditing, IPR, Staffing and Compensation, Process, and Governance Committees; his term extends to July 2010. Mr. Hughes is a Senior Standards Strategist in Microsoft's Corporate Interoperability and Standards Group (CISG). He is responsible for a variety of strategic standards activities at Microsoft, including the support of internal product development teams and representing Microsoft in various standards groups. Some of his current standards work includes active participation in the INCITS Executive Board (the US National Body for IT Standards); IEEE Standards Board (and subgroups) and IEEE/SA Corporate Advisory Group; and ISO/IEC JTC 1 (through the US Delegations). IMr. Hughes was previously employed at HP (standards), Fujitsu (standards and distributed computing), UniSoft (porting Unix to Motorola processor families), Amdahl (creating mainframe Unix) and IBM (MVS systems programming). He holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science, both from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dave Ings (dave.ings@oasis-open.org) serves on the Board IPR and Process Committees; his term extends to July 2011. He is Program Director of Emerging Software Standards in the IBM Software Group. Mr. Ings has over 25 years of experience in the software industry including assignments in product development, customer service, management, business and technical strategy and most recently software standards. His primary responsibility has been guiding IBM's participation in SOA and Business Process Management standards, and he is active at both OASIS and OMG. He is the chair of the OASIS BPEL4People TC. Mr. Ings holds a B. Sc. degree in Mathematics from Carleton University and an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.
Paul Knight (paul.knight@oasis-open.org) chairs the Staffing and Compensation Committee of the OASIS Board and serves on its Process Committee; his term extends to July 2010. Mr. Knight worked with Nortel for 10 years, as a product developer, corporate systems engineer, and currently as a standards advisor. His work in network design has spanned nearly 25 years and has placed him in almost every perspective, from network design consulting (Digital Equipment Corporation), to network customer (Intel), and in a network vendor role (Nortel).
Mr. Knight's recent technical work has focused on routing and security. He has three patent applications related to the Border Gateway Protocol and Virtual Private networks. He is currently co-chair of the IETF PKI4IPSEC Working Group, focusing on Identity-related issues with end-to-end security, specifically the use of digital certificates with the IP security protocol. He is currently secretary of the OASIS WS-TX Technical Committee, and an active member of the OASIS WS-RX, WSRM, and WS-SX Committees. He is a member of the W3C WS-Addressing WG, and has also been a member and document editor in the Open Mobile Alliance's Mobile Web Services WG and a member of WS-I.
Paul Lipton (paul.lipton@oasis-open.org) serves on the Board IPR, Process, and Governance Committees; his term extends to July 2011. He is Vice President at CA where he leads the corporate Industry Standards and Open Source Program as part of the activity of CA Labs, the advanced research group within CA. Mr. Lipton also serves on the Board of Directors of the open source Eclipse Foundation and the Distributed Management Task Force, has participated in OASIS TCs such as WSDM, WSRF, and WSN, as well many other industry organizations including the W3C. He has been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and a Sun Java Champion. Mr. Lipton is a founding member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence where he chairs the Emerging Technology Committee and also leads a project focused on leveraging Web 2.0 and social computing to improve research collaboration and in support CA's corporate strategy process.
Jeff Mischkinsky (jeff.mischkinsky@oasis-open.org) chairs the Board Process Committee and serves on its IPR, Finance and Auditing, and Governance Committees; his term extends to July 2010. Mr. Mischkinsky is Director of Web Services Standards and a Consulting Member Technical Staff for Oracle Corporation, where he is responsible for coordinating Oracle's standards efforts in the Web services space. He has over 20 years of development and standards experience in the database and distributed application fields.
Mr. Mischkinsky is also a WS-I Board member and chairs the WS-I Technical Coordination Group. He represents Oracle on W3C's Advisory Committee and participates in several W3C Working Groups including WSDL and Choreography. He holds an A.B. in Mathematics from Dartmouth College and an M.S. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Mr. Mischkinsky participates in several OASIS Technical Committees on Web services, including those developing WSBPEL, WS-CAF, WS-Reliability, WSRF, and WSN.
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